International
Deadline
May 30, 2025
Domestic
Deadline
June 30, 2025
Judging
Date
July 28, 2025
DNA Vineyard is locatated at Sonoma and Mendocino Counties in California. It is one of the fastest growing vineyard in USA. DNA Vineyards is dedicated to combining decades of experience with thousands of years of grapevines’ evolving genetics to produce outstanding select wines.
DNA vineyard has been designing and crafting private label wines for national retailers for over 12 years. They maintain two vineyards, one in Sonoma and other in Mendocino Counties in California. Additionally, DNA Vineyard contract from many premium growers in the region and make their wines in local, state-of-the-art facilities.
Russian River Valley Estate Pinot Noir
DNA vineyard’ Pinot Noir is handpicked from premium vines on their estate vineyard in the Laguna Ridge region of the Russian River Valley. It exemplifies the exceptional combination of soil and micro-climate that produce some of the world’s finest Pinot Noir wines. This deeply-colored Pinot bursts with aromas of rose petal, honeysuckle, and cardamon. Flavors of ripe Santa Rosa plums with hints of new French oak will charm your palate.
Dennis has been harvesting grapes and making wine for over 40 years and is considered an icon of Mendocino County’s wine industry. He is a sought-after winemaking consultant for wineries throughout Northern California. He site selects vineyards throughout Mendocino County and Northern California to make wines with unparalleled price/quality ratios for clients who include Trader Joe’s and The Wine and Spirits Guild of America. He directly sources and manages harvest and vilification for approximately 345,000 gallons of wines each year and expanded into Russian River Pinot Noir when DNA Vineyards moved to their Sonoma County vineyard in 2012.
Mud Pie
Every mother knows that if you give a child dirt, water and a sunny day, you will have a mud pie. It is an innate quality and need of mankind to work the earth with his hands. The remarkable winegrowers of Mendocino County comprise a unique collection of small, family-owned and carefully tended vineyards that truly exhibit this creative need to work the land and craft world class wines. Mud Pie wines are committed to sourcing and working with these dedicated artisans. Mud Pie is an endearing tribute to the best Mendocino County has to offer. It is one of the best product of DNA vineyard.
Dennis Patton
Dennis has been harvesting grapes and making wine for over 40 years and is considered an icon of Mendocino County’s wine industry. He is a sought-after winemaking consultant for wineries throughout Northern California. He site selects vineyards throughout Mendocino County and Northern California to make wines with unparalleled price/quality ratios for clients who include Trader Joe’s and The Wine and Spirits Guild of America. He directly sources and manages harvest and vinification for approximately 345,000 gallons of wines each year and expanded into Russian River Pinot Noir when DNA Vineyards moved to their Sonoma County vineyard in 2012
Andrea Silverstein
Andrea has been solely employed in the wine industry for over 20 years. She worked for Southern Wine & Spirits/American Wine & Spirits as a premium wine and spirits account manager in many of the country’s most prestigious wine accounts located in the West Los Angeles marketplace. She then founded a corporation, PacRim Wines & Spirits, and spent 10 years developing a successful wine and spirits export marketing company servicing large corporate wine accounts in Japan. Since selling that business in 2008, she has been solely dedicated to managing all financial and administrative aspects of DNA Vineyards’ operations.
Grow your wines in the off-premise channels of the USA. The international submission deadline is May 30, 2025, and the domestic submission deadline is June 30, 2025. Here is how to enter.